English & Fine Arts
Arkansas State University-Beebe
ASU-Beebe Theatre Program Announces Auditions for Spring '08 Productions!
The Arkansas State University-Beebe Theater Department will hold auditions for our two spring productions. These auditions are open to anyone and everyone and all roles are available.
The productions will be:
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
The Desk Set by William Marchant
All auditions will take place in the Owen Center Theater on the ASU-Beebe campus. These auditions are open to anyone, and all roles are available.
Auditions will be held on January 9 and 10, 2008 at 7:00 PM.
Callback auditions will be January 12, 2008 at 12:00 PM (Noon).
Only those selected from the 1/9 and 1/10 auditions will be seen at the callback.Auditionees will be expected to perform two memorized monologues. One must be from a Shakespeare play. The other should be contemporary and comedic.
Please do not exceed three minutes total for both monologues. Callback auditions will consist of readings from the script.
CONTACT: Bruce Cohen, Director of Theater, 501-882-8325.
We also need Technical and Stage Management Staff for these shows (painters, carpenters, costume construction, electricians, sound tech, stage managers, assistant stage managers, and production assistants).
This show is tentatively set to perform February 28 through March 2, 2008 (rehearsals will begin January 14, 2008).
Julius Caesar follows the epic story of the rise and fall of one of the world's most notorious leaders. Set in a world of political intrigue and strained domestic relationships, the production explores the moral and political dilemma of those in great power who also may be corrupted greatly.
This show is tentatively set to perform March 18 through April 20, 2008 (rehearsals will begin March 5, 2008).
From the New York Times newspaper:
The Desk Set, a comedy that was both a Broadway play starring Shirley Booth and a Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn movie. In the play, which ran in 1955, Miss Booth played the head librarian of a television and radio company. Beset by an efficiency expert, she battled bureaucracy.
In his review in the New York Times, Brooks Atkinson praised Miss Booth as radiating "humor and charm all evening." The Desk Set ran for 297 performances. In 1957, with a screenplay by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, the play became a Tracy-Hepburn movie.